This is why you should stop smoking:
Picture the opening scene to one of those “How I met your mother” episodes...
“Kids, today I want to tell you about how I met your mother,” is what I'll say. “Yay! Yes daddy, please,” I imagine they will respond with bated breath.
“Well, what comes to mind right now is the first couple of years that we were dating. I used to beg your mother to stop smoking. Everyday. But you know how she... oh wait you DON'T cause she's DEAD!” is how I'll calmly start.
They, on the other-hand, will have hearts of steel and show no remorse (they are my kids after all) because they never developed the loving emotions only a mother could nurture.
Little Thomas is an inquisitive one though and will ask, “But dad, please tell us something about our mother?”. “Well, kids” I'll try, “You know what? I had many happy memories about your mother but they have all faded and all I'm left with are the memories of the last six months where she was cancer ridden and had no hair. Oh the HORROR! She also smelled funny.”
Little Claire, with her scary resemblance to her late mother, will beg, “But daddy, please tell us! Did she love us?” and I'll say, “You know what kids, I don't think so. She would have stopped smoking if she did”
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